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Gessler says his re-election is needed to continue his election-integrity efforts

By John FryarLongmont Times-Call

Posted:
01/02/2013 06:38:51 PM MST

Updated:
01/02/2013 06:39:36 PM MST

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LONGMONT -- Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler said Wednesday that if he loses his seat in 2014, that office also would lose the focus he's placed on improving the integrity of Colorado's elections.

"I've stood up for following the law and enforcing the law," Gessler told about 50 people attending this month's Boulder County Republican Breakfast meeting here on Wednesday morning.

Gessler predicted that if he doesn't win re-election, no one "will have the courage to stand up again."

But Gessler said if he wins a second term, "I think what that's going to do is, it's going to prove to the left wing" that "the people in the state of Colorado do think that election integrity matters."

One possible Gessler foe in the 2014 election cycle could be former state Sen. Ken Gordon, a Denver Democrat who filed his candidate's affidavit last month. Gordon was his party's candidate for secretary of state in 2006, losing to Republican Mike Coffman.

Gessler currently is fighting complaints filed by Colorado Ethics Watch, a liberal group that alleges he improperly used public money for partisan purposes by spending office funds to attend a GOP lawyers conference in Florida.

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